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DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC

DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,832 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($900,108). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$1.5M
11/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Dyslexia Institute of Indiana Inc does

Mission

Believing all people are entitled to fulfill their potential, the dyslexia institute of indiana exists to serve all children, adolescents, and adults with specific language disabilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Wells outreach tutoring provided one-to-one orton gillingham tutoring to over 80 different students throughout the year. The majority of students tutor both fall and spring semester. During the summer, they may attend camp delafield or do summer tutoring. We usually have a waiting list with this program. There is a greater need than tutors available. We were pleased to provided specialized training for 4 of our ready set read tutors to become wells tutors.

    $622,547 spent$423,190 earned by the program
    70% of program spending
  2. Camp delafield is our flagstone service. This was the first outreach our founding mothers began. 2025 was our 36th camp. We had 58 students attend for five weeks, june 2 to july 3. New this year was a middle school component. We offered grammar, morphology and math to four ms campers. We hope to continue to grow this part of camp delafield.

    $138,240 spent$216,124 earned by the program
    15% of program spending
  3. We were able to greatly expand our ready, set read program during the year. This is a small group orton gillingham tutoring program. The recipents are elementary children in underserved communities in central indiana. All children must be on free/reduced lunch and reading below grade level. Fall 2025 semester we were in 16 different schools. We had 68 small groups serving 272 children. This initiative is funded by grants.

    $132,704 spent
    15% of program spending
  4. Testing program consists of educational testing, conducted by a nationally certified school psychologist, consists of a battery of standardized tests that are recognized by school systems and other professionals in the field and provides a comprehensive assessment of the student's learning strengths and weakness.

    $32,767 earned by the program

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $893,491.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($682k) Expenses 100 ($752k) Net assets 100 ($395k)2018 Revenue 89 ($607k) Expenses 70 ($525k) Net assets 121 ($478k)2019 Revenue 115 ($782k) Expenses 84 ($628k) Net assets 160 ($632k)2020 Revenue 100 ($685k) Expenses 80 ($603k) Net assets 184 ($726k)2021 Revenue 120 ($816k) Expenses 91 ($682k) Net assets 248 ($980k)2022 Revenue 39 ($266k) Expenses 36 ($268k) Net assets 238 ($939k)2023 Revenue 152 ($1.0M) Expenses 123 ($922k) Net assets 290 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 142 ($971k) Expenses 126 ($945k) Net assets 305 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 185 ($1.3M) Expenses 137 ($1.0M) Net assets 380 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (137)Net assets (380)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $2.1M (+67%).

$503k
$581k
$757k
$819k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$70k
’17
$82k
’18
$154k
’19
$82k
’20
$135k
’21
−$2k
’22
$119k
’23
$26k
’24
$234k
’25
1.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Calvin Chambers

Board chair & treasurer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed129771097810
Joined·+0+2+2+3+1+0+3+3
No longer listed·34202221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $37k → $813k.

7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

66%
largest funder
82%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 37% · 2019 35% · 2020 26% · 2021 72% · 2022 59% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC?
DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,832 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($900,108). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,357,832 in grants to DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $900,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing